China at this point has an amazing blackmail database — just correlate credit information with LinkedIn and Facebook data, and it’s trivial to find people with clearances or access to corporate secrets that you can get leverage on. Combine that with their attempted purchase of Grindr and other dating apps and you see a pattern.
Like I said, it doesn't fit the narrative of "data collectors = bad", it doesn't create the right emotional response, it doesnt help people hate equifax more, so it gets suppressed and immediately downvoted, on any forum.
Equifax can both be negligent and immoral AND not have caused any systemic identify thefts (that we know of, yet) from the event. I do think "a foreign government got the data on me" drastically shifts what the future threat from the exposure is, which should also change the settlement that was made under the pretense of them leaking data to traditional identity thieves or a black market.
> Like I said, it doesn't fit the narrative of "data collectors = bad", it doesn't create the right emotional response, it doesnt help people hate equifax more, so it gets suppressed and immediately downvoted, on any forum.
Have you considered that this might be caused by blind spots in your own news consumption?
For example, you previously linked to an article from 2019 that suggest the breach might have been a governmental attack, but you seem to have ignored the fact that 4 PLA members were indicted in February. There was widespread news coverage about this, including multiple submissions on this very forum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289826 does not look like it was "suppressed and immediately downvoted".
